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Dr. Patricia Lingley-Pottie is co-founder, President & CEO of the Strongest Families Institute (SFI) (www.strongestfamilies.com), a bilingual, charitable organization. SFI is an evidence-based, educational mental health service delivery system designed to deliver care to children, youth and adults from a distance. Strongest Families was developed to help resolve the serious problem of access to effective intervention for moderate mental health conditions. SFI’s military division provides customized programming nationally and internationally to military members and their families. SFI helps about 7000 people annually and continues to scale. Dr. Lingley-Pottie is also co-founder of SFI’s sophisticated eHealth system, IRIS (Intelligent Research and Intervention Software) (www.irisplatform.com). IRIS uses smart technology to provide a robust ehealth information management system with a staff interface as well as an interactive client interface. Her expertise is focused on: innovative, e-system development for online services and design for improved organizational efficiencies; development and evaluation of evidence-based programs; outcome evaluation; telephone and virtual coaching development, training and digital system integration; client-centred care; system scalability; scale development; and clinical trial design. As a Scientist at the Izaac Walton Killam (IWK) Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada), she continually seeks opportunities and new research partners to develop new programs and to utilize, customize and enhance the IRIS platform to provide innovative solutions to bridge the access gap. Dr. Pottie has 31 publications. She has received national recognition for social innovation as a co-recipient of the 2012 Mental Health Commission of Canada Award, the 2013 Ernest C. Manning Award, the 2017 Governor General of Canada Innovation Award, and recipient of the 2018 Atlantic Business Magazine Top 50 CEO Award. Most recently Dr. Pottie was the recipient of the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, Champion of Mental Health, Innovation, 2019.
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